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James wrote:Does anybody know where I can watch footage of Godard at work on set? Thanks.

Band of Outsiders

Has anyone spent the money to purchase the dvds of 1 PM and Two American Audiences off of the Pennebaker site?

I also see a page for Un Film Comme Les Autres but no release. So does that take out any chance for a U.S. boxset of the Dziga Vertov Group films?

JLG is going to do a film (a short subject, I suppose) around the Portuguese city of Guimaraes, voted European Capital of Culture 2012. Go here.

razumovsky wrote:Thanks for the information. I wonder if there is a problem locating a copy of the film with both original French dialogue and the colour effects? I seem to remember reading elsewhere here that Criterion had gone after it, but hadn't been successful. I suppose the thing to do is buy some red, white, and blue transparent plastic sheets and hold them up to screen at the correct moments - doesn't Anna Karina provide cues?

According to Richard Brody's Godard book Everything is Cinema (p.292):

The basic visual schema of Anticipation is alienatingly futuristic: the film's images are tinted in red, yellow, or blue, which a mechanical voice announces as "Soviet," "Chinese," and "European," respectively.

I don't know how accurate Broady's description is as I haven't seen a tinted version myself, but if he's right then it should be a (relatively) simple task to make a tinted version. I'd certainly like to see one - not least because accatone suggests it's essential.

martin wrote:According to Richard Brody's Godard book Everything is Cinema (p.292):

The basic visual schema of Anticipation is alienatingly futuristic: the film's images are tinted in red, yellow, or blue, which a mechanical voice announces as "Soviet," "Chinese," and "European," respectively.

I don't know how accurate Broady's description is as I haven't seen a tinted version myself, but if he's right then it should be a (relatively) simple task to make a tinted version. I'd certainly like to see one - not least because accatone suggests it's essential.

I just flipped (fast forward) through the youtube "version" of this film and indeed its monochrome b/w with only the image switching to color at the end (for "narrative" reasons…love etc., like Karina at the end of Alphaville). "Essential" is relativ in a short sketch like this but the red, yellow and blue tintings underline the idea of a "monochrome world" (ideologies, modernisem, no emotions) opposed to an emotional (romantic!) world of l'amour that comes at the end of the film.

Stefan Andersson wrote:JLG is going to do a film (a short subject, I suppose) around the Portuguese city of Guimaraes, voted European Capital of Culture 2012. Go here.

I look forward to whatever he ends up doing with the allocated funds instead of this

*CG* wrote:Has anyone spent the money to purchase the dvds of 1 PM and Two American Audiences off of the Pennebaker site?

I just posted images from the 1PM DVD here. Pretty much a standard 16mm filmchain to DVD dub. No tweaks. No chapters either.

BrianInAtlanta wrote:

*CG* wrote:Has anyone spent the money to purchase the dvds of 1 PM and Two American Audiences off of the Pennebaker site?

I just posted images from the 1PM DVD here. Pretty much a standard 16mm filmchain to DVD dub. No tweaks. No chapters either.

Wow, thanks for coming through on my question. With all that said, would you recommend a huge Godard fan on buying this for that price for what you know about the dvd itself? Thanks again.

Jean-Pierre Gorin on the legacy of the Dziga Vertov Group, essay films, becoming a producer, JLG, the beauty of first films, his California trilogy, tribes of cinema, Philip K. Dick, The Wire, and the migration of craft.

Thanks for the videos Oedipax.

*CG* wrote:Wow, thanks for coming through on my question. With all that said, would you recommend a huge Godard fan on buying this for that price for what you know about the dvd itself? Thanks again.

Godard's quite right that it's a Pennebaker film, not a Godard film. However, it's certainly the best documentary showing Godard directing a movie, observing his interview subject while directing cameras with a glance to grab a shot here and there, working with Rip Torn to craft his approach to scenes, etc.

I can only imagine that once Godard saw the manner of Pennebaker and Leacock's filming style, diving around their subjects and getting in their faces for immediacy, he realized he could never fit it into his then-current cool, long-shot aesthetic.

Ovader wrote:Godard's next film is called Adieu au langage which is in his words:

It’s about a man and his wife who no longer speak the same language. The dog they take on walks then intervenes and speaks. How I’ll do it, I don’t yet know. The rest is simple.... Maybe I’ll even shoot my next film in 3-D. I always like it when new techniques are introduced. Because it doesn’t have any rules yet. And one can do everything.

That project was brought up again in the last two paragraphs of this article.

Is there anything more enjoyable to read than a Godard interview?

Finally watched Madman's Le gai savoir with Adrian Martin's commentary. The film is far from a favorite for me, though I respect what it tries to do. However, Martin approaches the film from a great standpoint, of a fan who tries to defend and reclaim the film within the timeframe of Godard's radical period. It is an exhaustively researched commentary, as per the norm, but Martin's gone out and watched super obscure works like Godard's television work from the seventies and ties in a lot of those esoteric points of reference into his overall arguments. This is an essential listen for those interested in the post-Weekend Godard! Although, Martin does have one humorous slip-up: Apparently he's never seen an Etch-A-Sketch, so during the (admittedly pretty inexplicable) sequence showing someone drawing random geometrical patterns on the child's toy, Martin wonders outloud about what kind of computer program Godard used to generate such a sequence!

Martin's giddy enthusiasm was infectious, it's great to listen to a commentator who did his research and has an obvious passion for the film.

Hmm. :-"

This'll be great. I like Spectacle. Yes it's digital projection, but the sound is good and it cost 5 bucks. To clarify oedipax post they're showing Nouvelle Vague and Germany 90 nine zero.

Pardon if it's already been discussed (couldn't find it via search), but does anyone know anything about this 49 DVD Godard Collection set that looks like a bootleg? Found it here. I see the collection listed on a number of dubious sites and can't find the name of the distributor. Thanks.

It's a box set from mainland China, full of films that would never make it through Chinese censorship (legitimate DVD releases in China need approval from the regulators) and with subtitle options that would make no sense for a legitimate box set (they clearly just retained the original subtitles from the discs they ripped off, then added Chinese subs). It's a bootleg and so is everything else on that site.

JLG 2011 interview for French radio, five parts, all this week.

Production601 wrote:JLG 2011 interview for French radio, five parts, all this week.

Wow thanks for the heads up! I often listen to the NCC but I never really listen Hors Champs I wouldn't have noticed it...

Any details to be shared from the French Radio interview regarding Adieu au langage besides what was posted earlier in this thread?

Juan Branco, son of producer Paulo Branco, edited "Reponses a Hadopi" one year ago, a manifesto for the free sharing in the internet. The book ends with a chat with JLG concerning this subject.

The publishing house has put the book on free access here. In French only.

Fantastic - thanks!

Production601 wrote:The publishing house has put the book on free access here.

Not sure if it's been mentioned elsewhere before, but in the interview, Godard says his next film (Adieu au Langage? It's not mentioned) will be shot in 3D.

He's also saying he watched Piranhas 3D.